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Video or Still pics?

My favorite setting is video during the day and pictures at night, if the camera has that setting. Night time video drains the batteries too quickly. I also am less concerned with how the deer act during non-shooting hours. I just want to know if they pass by at night. I don't put cameras on public land, too many thieves. On private, at least 5 feet high with decent back and side cover. I rarely have a deer look at my cameras.
 
Camera scouting is totally dependent on you are trying to learn personally. I use stills because I am looking for specific things, direction of travel, are bucks present, time of day, repetition, other people. With stills the batteries on my cheapies last 8 -10 months. So I can sit them over long periods of time and get data from preseason, in season, post season and into spring.
 
Thanks for all the help. Kinda of hard to back track a deer in thick stuff and with out going in to check very often. Put out cameras and got pics that day and next then nothing the next two weeks. Will take three months to backtrack a deer a couple hundred yards just checking once a month. Not much success back tracking yet.
 
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